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New York : HarperPerennial, 1994.
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Ponder, if you will ... Do snakes sneeze?Why didn't the three musketeers carry muskets?What happens to the holes that are punched out of looseleaf paper?Why don't people smile in old photos? Pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these questions and much more in How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? Part of the Imponderables? series -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing conundrums -- and charmingly illustrated by Kassie Schwan, this book provides you with knowledge about everyday life that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don't have. And think about it, where else are you going to find out why glue doesn't get stuck in the bottle?
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LibraryThing member Heather19
The more of this series I read the less I like. I collect books like this, and I am going to try to read every Imponderables book, but... it's definitely not the best series in this type of genre.
First off, let me share my frustrating at the small percentage of actual *answers* and *information*
The rest of this book is.... well, sub-par at best. Maybe I'm of the minority, I don't know, but in my mind when you are publishing a book that claims to answer "life's most frustrating Imponderables", wouldn't it be in your best interest to choose to include only those questions you actually *can* answer? So many of the questions that are "answered" in this book... well, aren't. The reader is given a list of likely answers and the reasoning behind each, but nothing concrete. It's frustrating.
First off, let me share my frustrating at the small percentage of actual *answers* and *information*
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in this book. A good THIRD of the book is updates on "Frustables", questions from past books that they still haven't found a satisfactory answer to. Those updates consisted almost entirely of rehashing the same ideas and possibilities that they put forth in the other books, and quoting long pieces of letters from readers that gave no real new information at all.The rest of this book is.... well, sub-par at best. Maybe I'm of the minority, I don't know, but in my mind when you are publishing a book that claims to answer "life's most frustrating Imponderables", wouldn't it be in your best interest to choose to include only those questions you actually *can* answer? So many of the questions that are "answered" in this book... well, aren't. The reader is given a list of likely answers and the reasoning behind each, but nothing concrete. It's frustrating.
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xvii, 269 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
0060925582 / 9780060925581
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